by Bruce Brown | January 21, 2019 | Medical
Hypoglycemia — low blood glucose — is a dangerous and potentially fatal condition most commonly experienced by people with Type 1 diabetes. Diabetics aim to keep their blood sugar levels in the healthy 70-180 mg/dL range as much as possible by managing...
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by Bruce Brown | January 11, 2019 | Health
Advances in diabetes management are among the most exciting in medical care, particularly with wearable continuous glucose monitors (CGM), insulin pumps, and algorithm-driven closed-loop artificial pancreas systems. We’ve written about Medtronic’s...
by Bruce Brown | July 3, 2018 | General News, Health, Medical
People with type 1 diabetes typically have to work hard to maintain their blood sugar levels within a target range, as this leads to better health and lower risk of dangerous complications. We wrote about the Medtronic MiniMed 670G hybrid closed-loop glucose...
by Alfred Poor | September 29, 2017 | General News, Medical
Modern medicine has made the treatment of diabetes fairly simple. A patient gets a blood sugar reading, and then injects the appropriate amount of insulin. The process is made much simpler through the use of handheld glucometers that require just a tiny drop of blood...
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by Bruce Brown | March 7, 2017 | General News, Health
Approximately 1.6 billion people in the world have diabetes or prediabetes, according to World Health Organization figures. Of that immense number, only 1 in 20 of those have Type 1, the autoimmune form of the disease. The remainder of diabetics and virtually all...
